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Famous people who have used or abused inhalants

There should be a section for famous people who have used or abused inhalants.[Removed material about living people per WP:BLP-gadfium]— Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.238.240.252 (talk) 05:24, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

putting title back to Inhalant

The title was changed from "Inhalant" to "Intoxicative inhalant", to avoid reader confusion with medically-inhaled gases and liquids. However well-intended this change was, it appears to be contrary to Wikipedia's article naming policy, which instructs us to "use commonly recognizable names". WP:COMMONNAME. I searched on PubMed for "intoxicative inhalant", and there were 0 (zero) hits. I searched for "inhalant abuse" and there were 485 hits. So "intoxicative inhalant" isn't a term used by doctors and scientists to describe the practice. I would propose "Inhalant abuse", since this term is used in articles listed in PubMed, but "abuse" is judgmental, and the article naming policy says to use non-judgmental article titles for WP:NPOV reasons. (See WP:NDESC). So we are left with "Inhalant". There is no other article on medical inhalants as a category, so there are no disambiguation problems.OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 02:14, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Harm/Dependence drug graph

The graph comparing societal harm, dependence, and physical harm of different drugs is wildly misinformed. "Street methadone" is not a drug different from methadone. Heroin is absolutely not more physically harmful than cocaine, tobacco, inhalants, or amphetamines. Heroin itself does almost no long term physical damage. The list goes on. It is wildly, wildly inaccurate, and needs to be taken down. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1014:B006:6D0D:0:44:BA8D:5101 (talk) 13:04, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Primary effects due to oxygen deprivation

"Many inhalants act primarily as asphyxiant gases, with their primary effect due to oxygen deprivation" is inaccurate or not fully detailed. Saying that their primary effect is due to oxygen deprivation suggests to the reader that inhalants utilized recreationally are not psychoactive and that their effects are only due to the lack of oxygen, which is a common misconception in the topic of inhalant abuse. The majority of recreational inhalants do act as asphyxiants, and the oxygen deprivation adds to the noticeable effects, but commonly used inhalants do still have notable psychoactive effects (mostly due to the active components simple structure and high reactivity, allowing it to easily pass the blood-brain barrier and activate/inhibit many neurological components in the brain) and purely asphyxiant gases are not used recreationally by the vast majority of inhalant users, as the sensation of oxygen deprivation does not exhibit conventionally recreational effects. I believe a rephrasing is in order for this section of the article; along the lines of "All commonly abused inhalants act as asphyxiant gases, although a common myth is that their primary effects are only due to oxygen deprivation. In reality, the majority of abused inhalants still exhibit psychoactive effects, although oxygen deprivation does add to the notable effects." This in particular may be revised if required. 66.99.191.218 (talk) 16:43, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]